Does Anyone Know Obama's Grand Strategy on IS?

Obama's leadership on the Islamic State is in a worse shambles than usual with this administration. Over the weekend the position went from 'IS as a regional menace', to 'an imminent international threat that requires war in Syria', and back again. This is not a strategy for dealing with IS.

Over the weekend Gen. Martin Dempsey did a shocking U-turn, saying ISIS is not currently plotting or planning attacks against the U.S. or Europe.

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria cannot be defeated unless the United States or its partners take on the Sunni militants in Syria, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin E. Dempsey said last Thursday. 

“This is an organization that has an apocalyptic end-of-days strategic vision that will eventually have to be defeated. Can they be defeated without addressing that part of the organization that resides in Syria? The answer is no.” (Source) 

But on Monday Dempsey made a U-turn and said IS is no immediate threat. (Source) Actually the idea to attack IS in Syria was a major departure from the awkward contradiction of supporting IS in Syria while fighting it in Iraq. The Obama regime now appears to have returned to that position. So what is going on?

FEMEN, the Caliphate and the Morally Confused

Western, postmodern feminazis have become the decadent appeasers of the worst violators of rights that are presently in existence: Islamic male supremacists. It's a luxury the women who live in their proximity cannot afford. @FEMEN_Turkey is taking the lead with an in your face tweet

Benim bedenim, benim kararım! FEMEN'e katılın! joinfementurkey@gmail.com pic.twitter.com/uFgiRIYBTf
— FEMEN Turkey (@FEMEN_Turkey) August 26, 2014

We received some criticism regarding the FEMEN picture released on Aug. 22. The choice may not have been too clever PR wise, since its 'in your face character' may have prevented some tweeps from RT it. On the other hand, if the FEMEN pic offends you more than IS does, there's something very out of whack with your morality. Eastern Europe and the Middle East are not the postmodern West; here's still mountains of work to be done here towards the equality of the sexes.

Journalists Pissed With IS For Killing Foley

Most journalists today are not traders in news, but self appointed political activists selling the public a far Leftist stance for centrism. They are surprised and dismayed when no one is buying it

@Hugodixon Were journalists supportive of IS before they killed Foley?
— ★Kassandra (@Kassandra_Troy) August 23, 2014

@Hugodixon Great point. How can one possibly be understanding towards an ideology that a child understands is morally evil?
— ★Kassandra (@Kassandra_Troy) August 23, 2014

UPDATE: Sometimes the mask suddenly drops.

@Hugodixon @Kassandra_Troy I would love to cover them close up. But unwise and unlikely.
— Simon Robinson (@iron_emu) August 23, 2014

A Doctrine to Combat the Islamic State IS

The Islamic State IS is raping, pillaging, slaving, crucifying and beheading its way through the Middle East. The savagery seems to attract countless young Muslims from East as well as West. What went wrong? 

Shiraz Maher, an expert in radicalization explains IS and its attraction for Muslims in the West. 

Ghaffar Hussain, Managing Director at the secular Quilliam Foundation (bio) brings up an excellent point in a piece on the Telegraph without actually answering the question he poses:

It's no surprise that James Foley's murderer had an English accent. We need to counter and undermine the narrative which makes the ideology of the Islamic State attractive to some young men in Britain. (Source)

Let's break this down into two basic questions: what makes them reject the most successful philosophy in human history - Liberty - in terms of freedom, prosperity and self realization for the individual? And secondly, how come they look for an answer at the most backward, oppressive and irrational collectivist system presently known to man - the Islamic State under Sharia Law?

Dutch Artist Recreates Removed Art Against IS(IS)

In the face of intimidation and appalling violence, moral courage has become a rare commodity. But a Frisian artist in the north of the Netherlands decided to make a statement against the fascism of terror group IS(IS) 

19 aug. 2014 - GPTV: Grafitti art by L.J. van Tuinen as a protest against IS(IS)

UPDATE: On Aug. 20 the municipality of Leeuwarden removed the art work. The possibility exists that some clerk took it upon himself to remove the grafitti in order to avert controversy, but it appears to have been an honest mistake. The city council has apologized and offered to pay Mr Van Tuinen to redo the art work. He has accepted. (Bron)

How To Deconstruct the Caliphate Within?

The Islamic State is located in the border area of Syria and Iraq, but the Caliphate also lives in the hearts and minds of Muslims in the West. The BBC had a look at a Muslim enclave in the Dutch city of The Hague

Aug 10, 2014: The Battle of the Schilderswijk according to Free Aseer. Read also: "Wilders visits Muslim Enclave The Hague". 

In the video above we are presented with the narrative according to radical Muslims, who see themselves as victims of a racist society. They are in fact so marginalized, two separate Muslim parties are represented in the city council. They are openly or covertly supporting the cause of ISIS (Live Blog Political Islam (Dutch)). Politicians are struggling with the issue, because they are reasoning from the wrong mental frame. It is mind boggling, but even the extreme violence and cruelty of IS hasn't woken them up to the fact that these people are not our fellow citizens, but on the contrary, the enemy within.

Interview with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu

Yesterday Sean Hannity sat down with the Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and talked about the situation in Gaza, international laws of war and about the prospects to defeat the forces that target and sacrifice civilians

Aug 7, 2014 Hannity Interview Netanyahu 8/7/2014: PM on Israel's right to defend itself

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• Part 4

Related

• Live Blog Operation Protective Edge (Gaza)
• Live Blog Caliphate (IS)
• Live Blog Genocide of Minorities (Iraq)

Pat Condell: Hypocrisy Over Gaza

The hypocrisy on display by the Left in the West is reaching nauseating levels. Every Muslim atrocity is systematically and methodically ignored. The Israeli defense of its citizens condemned as war crimes

Israel doesn't owe a biased world any explanation for defending itself against murderers.

Related

• Pat Condell's Message to Offended Muslims
• Condell: "We Want Our Sovereign Democracy Back"
• Muslim Students Put New Indian PM On Death List

Full documentary: "Muslims in Europe"

The full 4-part documentary released in 2012 on the Islamization of Europe. The filmmaker is an Arabic-speaking Israeli whose flawless Arabic allowed him to mingle freely with the Muslims in several no-go zones in Sweden and France 

Documentary by Zvi Yehezkeli and David Deryi.

Th initial title of this four part documentary was "Europe’s Takeover by Islam". It was made in 2012 by Zvi Yehezkeli and David Deryi. It has been translated from Hebrew and subtitled in English. The filmmaker is an Arabic-speaking Israeli whose appearance and flawless Arabic accent were sufficient to allow him to mingle freely with the Muslims in several no-go zones in Sweden and France, and to get an inside look at the Islamic mindset within the greater European community. The film contains some shocking footage, including a middle aged, seemingly innocent Muslim mother, who then threatens to "Burn down Sweden" if her deported son is hurt in his native Iraq and an armed Muslim criminal fleeing from French police who jumps into the camera teams van and forces them to drive him to safety. Welcome to Eurabia.

A Taste of Islam: the Numbers and Stalistics

Since the onset of ISIS we crossed a new threshold in the brutality of which Islam is capable. No, other religions were not "just as bad", and no, Islam will not go through the same evolution as Christianity, because evolution in Islam is haram

Dr. Bill Warner, Director and Founder of the Center for the Study of Political Islam (CSPI) analyzes the elements of Islam and tells us how they fit together.

Books available on the site of the Center for the Study of Political Islam (CSPI)
Skip the book stuff: at 5:00
On abrogation: 9:30
What is Islam: 14:10
On the unbelievers: 15:15
On Jihad: 19:20
About the Jews: 21:00
On dualism and contradiction: 25:30
Islamic ethics 28:15
The figures of Jihad: 30:20
Law of Islamic Saturation (population figures): at 31:15
On women: 33:00
The Grand Lie 34:39